Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...German with side and spurred a late March demand that the French clean up their act. That demand was enough to get the French goat. A third devaluation of the franc in 17 months, as called for, could only embarass the Mitterrand government politically, further ammunition for the centrist opposition claiming the Socialists were fiscally inept. More pressing would be the inflationary effects of any devaluation; some kind of austerity program would have to follow. For a government still bent on spending its way out of recession and into popularity, this was unacceptable...
...your story "The Verdict Is Guilty" about the Israeli commission report on the Beirut massacre [Feb. 21], you described Shinui as a left-wing party. Shinui is a centrist party that opposes the government precisely because of its liberal connections. It cannot be described as a left-wing party...
Rosovsky acknowledged criticism that the College was either too liberal or too restrictive, saying that Harvard was trying to steer a "centrist" course through the Core's emphasis on teaching the basic modes of thinking...
Even before the election campaign began, however, Kohl's rosy political prospects started to fade. First, a wave of sympathy began to build for the defeated Schmidt, whose term of office ended when the small, centrist Free Democratic Party deserted his coalition to join Kohl's conservative alignment. Then Kohl faced a voter backlash for the way he arranged the election call, by stage-managing a vote of confidence against himself in the Bundestag. That maneuver has been contested by four Bundestag members before West Germany's Constitutional Court...
When conservative West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl wrested power from the Social Democratic-led coalition of Helmut Schmidt more than three months ago, he took pains to emphasize his commitment to NATO's missile deployment plans. So did Kohl's new partner, the centrist Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.), which had been instrumental in causing the collapse of the Schmidt government by forming a new partnership with Kohl's Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (C.S.U.). Now, just five weeks before West Germans go to the polls in national elections on March...